Personal Corner • Beyond Software

Hobbies & Curiosities

The internet is full of sterile developer resumes. This page is a personal corner dedicated to the things that feed my mind when the laptop lid closes: poetry, public speaking, and books.

Urdu & Hindi Poetry

Notebook of Couplets (Ghazal & Shayari)

Writing couplets requires immense economy of language. In just two metered lines, you must establish mood, tension, and resolution. To me, it feels deeply connected to good software architecture: every component must justify its existence.

सितारों के जहाँ से आगे कोई और भी जहाँ होगा, इश्क़ का कारवाँ अब किसी और आसमाँ में होगा।

Sitaron ke jahan se aage koi aur bhi jahan hoga, Ishq ka karwan ab kisi aur aasman mein hoga.

“Beyond the realm of these stars, another universe awaits; The caravan of love will journey under a different sky.”

Note: Written while contemplating the boundless nature of human longing and unexplored frontiers.

नज़र नज़र का फ़र्क़ है बस इस कायनात में, कोई ख़ाक देखता है तो कोई आसमान लिखता है।

Nazar nazar ka farq hai bas is kayanaat mein, Koi khaak dekhta hai toh koi aasman likhta hai.

“It is but the difference of perspective in this universe: One sees only dust, while another writes of the heavens.”

Note: A reflection on how mindset and intention shape how we interpret setbacks and beauty alike.

अंधेरों से कह दो ज़रा हौसला रखें, दिल का चराग़ बुझा नहीं, रौशनी का सफ़र जारी है।

Andheron se keh do zara hausla rakhein, Dil ka charagh bujha nahi, roshni ka safar jaari hai.

“Tell the darkness to brace itself; The lamp of the heart is not snuffed; the journey of light continues.”

Note: Composed during intensive engineering sprints and late-night problem-solving sessions.

Community Engagement

Public Speaking & Mentorship

Speaking in public forces you to dissect concepts until they are intuitively clear. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege to deliver technical keynotes and mentor aspiring developers across several venues:

500+

Developers Mentored

10+

Workshops Delivered

1st

Code Sangram Win

Tech Horizons Summit Keynote: Delivered a 40-minute presentation on “Interpreting Anomalies in Graph Structures”, walking engineering students through relational fraud detection using Graph Attention Networks.
Global ML Hackathon (Lead Coordinator): Directed technical operations, mentor pairings, and API credit allocations for over 500 participants building multimodal AI prototypes.
Azure Campus Series: Led hands-on live coding workshops covering cloud deployment, Azure Functions, and Cosmos DB integrations at Alliance University.

Curated Reading

Books Worth Re-Reading

A short list of non-fiction works that fundamentally adjusted how I view system design, cognitive architecture, and product creation:

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

Taught me that if a user struggles with an interface or a door, the failure lies in the design affordance, never in the human.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

Transformed how I evaluate feedback loops, latency delays, and nonlinear dynamics in software and organizations.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

The foundational holy book for understanding distributed state, replication logs, consensus, and unvarnished system trade-offs.

A Few Personal Life Rules

Write clearly: If you cannot explain an architecture in plain prose, you do not understand it yet.
Respect the reader's bandwidth: Fast websites, clean typography, and zero unnecessary popups.
Stay curious across boundaries: Great ideas often emerge from importing an insight from an unrelated field into software engineering.